The Occupational Structure of England and Wales: the 1939 National Register

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Occupational Structure of England and Wales: the 1939 National Register

AU - Calabrese, Matteo

AU - Philips, Robin

AU - Keenan, Robert

AU - van Leeuwen, Bas

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - A gap in the census surveys for England and Wales between 1921 and 1951 hinders the analysis of their labour structure for the interwar years. The present article uses a dataset containing occupational titles from the National Register – a census-like enumeration of 1939, recently digitised by the genealogy service ‘Find My Past’ – which was previously assigned numerical codes (the pst system). The study expands the existing data analysis on the occupational structure of England and Wales by introducing three further variables: the gender of the surveyed individuals, their age, and the shares of the inactive population per gender and age groups.

AB - A gap in the census surveys for England and Wales between 1921 and 1951 hinders the analysis of their labour structure for the interwar years. The present article uses a dataset containing occupational titles from the National Register – a census-like enumeration of 1939, recently digitised by the genealogy service ‘Find My Past’ – which was previously assigned numerical codes (the pst system). The study expands the existing data analysis on the occupational structure of England and Wales by introducing three further variables: the gender of the surveyed individuals, their age, and the shares of the inactive population per gender and age groups.

KW - England and Wales

KW - 1939 Register

KW - region

KW - population

KW - occupation

U2 - 10.1163/24523666-bja10026

DO - 10.1163/24523666-bja10026

M3 - Article

SN - 2452-3666

VL - 7

SP - 1

EP - 17

JO - Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

JF - Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

IS - 1

ER -